[llvm] f816cf6 - [DeveloperPolicy] Specify LLVM's license more clearly.

[Kristof Beyls via llvm-commits]

Author: Kristof Beyls
Date: 2021-02-12T09:16:43Z
New Revision: f816cf6a4747f3c5f0c6c292aead51fb7f10580b

URL: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/f816cf6a4747f3c5f0c6c292aead51fb7f10580b
DIFF: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/f816cf6a4747f3c5f0c6c292aead51fb7f10580b.diff

LOG: [DeveloperPolicy] Specify LLVM's license more clearly.

Before, the first mention of LLVM's license on the developer policy page stated
that LLVM's license is Apache 2. This patch makes that more accurate by
mentioning the LLVM exception this first time the LLVM license is discussed on
that page, i.e. Apache-2.0 with LLVM-exception.

Technically, the correct SPDX identifier for LLVM's license is 'Apache-2.0 WITH
LLVM-exception', but I thought that writing the 'WITH' in lower case made the
paragraph easier to read without reducing clarity.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D96482

Added: 
    

Modified: 
    llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst

Removed: 
    


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diff  --git a/llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst b/llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst
index 7bcb5664540a..6b6fe29a963e 100644
--- a/llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst
+++ b/llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst
@@ -786,8 +786,9 @@ Copyright, License, and Patents
 This section addresses the issues of copyright, license and patents for the LLVM
 project.  The copyright for the code is held by the contributors of
 the code.  The code is licensed under permissive `open source licensing terms`_,
-namely the Apache 2 license, which includes a copyright and `patent license`_.
-When you contribute code to the LLVM project, you license it under these terms.
+namely the Apache-2.0 with LLVM-exception license, which includes a copyright
+and `patent license`_.  When you contribute code to the LLVM project, you
+license it under these terms.
 
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